Thursday, February 12, 2009

CNN reported "They took me to a detention center," Wilders said, and there he was interviewed "for 45 seconds" before they took his passport and left. Wilders had been invited to screen his film, "Fitna," at the House of Lords on Thursday evening.

But the Home Office arrested Wilders before he could get to Parliament. This would be like a Senate committee inviting someone to testify in a hearing, and having the Executive Branch preventing him from attending.

... The British ambassador to the Netherlands told him Wednesday that he would be refused entry into Britain because the beliefs expressed in the film would threaten public security.